[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 26388]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




  CONTINUATION OF EMERGENCY POSED BY PROLIFERATION OF WEAPONS OF MASS 
 DESTRUCTION AND THEIR DELIVERY SYSTEM--MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF 
                THE UNITED STATES (H. DOC. NO. 108-138)

  The SPEAKER pro tempore laid before the House the following message 
from the President of the United States; which was read and, together 
with the accompanying papers, without objection, referred to the 
Committee on International Relations and ordered to be printed:

To the Congress of the United States:
  Section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1622(d)) 
provides for the automatic termination of a national emergency unless, 
prior to the anniversary date of its declaration, the President 
publishes in the Federal Register and transmits to the Congress a 
notice stating that the emergency is to continue in effect beyond the 
anniversary date. Consistent with this provision, I have sent to the 
Federal Register for publication the enclosed notice, stating that the 
emergency posed by the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and 
their delivery systems declared by Executive Order 12938 on November 
14, 1994, as amended, is to continue in effect beyond November 14, 
2003. The most recent notice continuing this emergency was signed on 
November 6, 2002, and published in the Federal Register on November 12, 
2002 (67 Fed. Reg. 68493).
  Because the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and the 
means of delivering them continues to pose an unusual and extraordinary 
threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the 
United States, I have determined the national emergency previously 
declared must continue in effect beyond November 14, 2003.
                                                      George W. Bush.  
The White House, October 29, 2003.

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